What’s the best type of refactoring you could ever perform on source code? Silly question, right? The best answer I’ve seen is to delete some of it. When you’ve been debugging for a while and it occurs to you that the code in question doesn’t...
As 2014 winds down, we’ll take an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time. Steve Huey took us on a quick tour of a key/value store for iOS that’s built on top of the ubiquitous...
Apple surprised the Mac and iOS developer community at WWDC with the announcement of Swift, a new language for developing apps for OS X and iOS. With each beta release of iOS 8, Yosemite, and Xcode 6 the language has been evolving and the community has been quick to...
A new mobile database for iOS (Android support coming soon) launched earlier this week called Realm. Given that up to this point your options were SQLite or something built on top of SQLite like Core Data or YapDatabase, it’s kind of a big deal. SQLite is great,...
Synchronization and Core Data in Modern iOS Apps I’m working on an iOS project that synchronizes a lot of data between a web service and an iPad app. We’ve relied on the advice and research in the fantastic issues of objc.io on Core Data and Syncing...
